The method and order of reading both civil and ecclesiatical histories. . In which the most excellent historians are reduced into the order in which they are successively to be read; and the judgments of learned men, concerning each of them, subjoin'd. By Degoræus Wheare, Camden reader of history in Oxford. To which is added, an appendix concerning the historians of particular nations, as well ancient as modern. By Nicholas Horseman. Made English and enlarged by Edmund Bohun.
Degory Wheare (1573 - 1647)
Category
Books
Date
1685
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 3127018
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48],362,[14]p. . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Provenance: Seventeenth-century inscription on flyleaf: John Wentworth Booke 1690. Small seventeenth-century manuscript note on flyleaf: affe [?]. Eighteenth-century inscription on title page: Ended to bee read att Howsham by JW 1709 beeing ye year ye Grading [?] was made y[] by Sr J. Wentworth. Eighteenth-century armorial shield bookplate lettered Sir John Wentworth of North Elmes hall, in the West Rideing of Yorkshire Baronet (Franks *152) [i.e. Sir John Wentworth, 1st baronet of North Elmsall (1673-1720)]. Bequeathed to the National Trust by Norman Norris (1917-1991).
Makers and roles
Degory Wheare (1573 - 1647) Edmund Bohun (1645-1699) Nicholas Horsman (fl.1689)